From snake venom to donkey milk there’s always some unusual and unique ingredient in Korean beauty products particularly skincare. If you’re looking for weird and unusual pop on a Farm Stay Horse Oil & Gold Hydrogel Eye Patch and call me in the morning. These little eye patches contain a host of interesting ingredients including snail slime and of course, horse fat or oil.
Before you start running in horror at the idea of horse fat making a guest starring appearance in your skincare let me give you a little back story. In certain Asian and European countries eating horse meat is fairly common. Just call me Andrew Zimmern because I’ve traveled quite a lot and in my travels I’ve eaten quite a few unusual things, horse meat being one (it pretty much tastes like venison). I am not a vegetarian by any means and I do eat meat. I do considered myself squeamish when it comes to food and maybe even picky as I don’t like my foods to touch. My father finds this wildly funny and he commonly lectures me about how it all ends up in my stomach anyway and it’s likely “touching”. But yeah, I’m kind of weird with food. Oddly enough, I am a bit adventurous though and I have eaten quite a few odd things including spiders, grasshoppers, and other oddities. Yeah…! So, a little backstory there to go along with this review.
The reason I mention this is because even though horse meat isn’t something you’ll see at a supermarket in the US it is fairly common in certain countries and and any left over fat is rendered into oil which is used in skincare. It’s important to know that Korea or any other country is not raising horses just to create eye patches. They raise them for food and later the left over fat is used in other products such as these patches.
Gross, yes, but horse oil or fat is actually a beneficial skincare ingredient. Hell, if I haven’t lost you yet you might even be willing to try the Farm Stay Horse Oil & Gold Hydrogel Eye Patch and if you’re already applying some sort of snail slime on your face why not horse oil?
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